Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Back to TP-LINK stock firmware
If you are trying to go back to the stock firmware using the mtd command and you have the following error message:
If you don’t upload a proper firmware, your router will get bricked next time it boots.
You need to strip the first 257 bytes from the .bin.
Then you're good to upload the new tplink.bin:
And visit the default url:
.. [e]Failed to erase blockIf you don’t upload a proper firmware, your router will get bricked next time it boots.
You need to strip the first 257 bytes from the .bin.
#dd if=Archer_c7-firm-orig.bin of=tplink.bin skip=257 bs=512Then you're good to upload the new tplink.bin:
#mtd -r write /tmp/tplink.bin firmwareAnd visit the default url:
http://192.168.0.1 // posted by gilemon @ 10:45 AM 
